To the Nobility of the Russian Empire

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Dedicated to my ancestors.

Complete list of noble families of the Russian Empire (titled and pillar nobility)

We have seen a lot of unfounded claims different persons to nobility (despite the fact that it has not existed in Russia for 100 years), or to descent from one or another noble family, as well as to noble titles (some of which never belonged to one or another family at all). That is why the idea of ​​this list arose, since the author was unable to find anything similar anywhere that would be sufficiently complete and entirely logical.

This list only includes births hereditary nobles, and to begin with they will only bring titled clans (including clans that received their title from foreign sovereigns and foreign titled nobles, provided that their title was officially recognized in Russia) or ancient(“pillar”, before 1685) childbirth Russian Empire, that is, noble families included, respectively, in the V-th and VI-th parts of genealogical books by province, see page Differences among the nobility). Thus, this list probably covers only about 15% of the noble families (but for the rest, information is much more accessible, since the families that arose in the 18th and 19th centuries are recent, the fact of their entry into the hereditary nobility is always well documented and all of their 2-6 generations are easily traced using the noble genealogical books of the respective provinces).

Thus, Not includes:

• personal nobles (who did not create a clan),


• hereditary nobles of the first four parts genealogical books (received nobility by grant after 1685, or for service in the army or civil service, as well as untitled foreigners),


• untitled nobles of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland, who, strictly speaking, were not part of the Russian Empire, but were more or less relatively autonomous states in a personal union with Russia (having the same monarch),


• untitled nobles of the Caucasus and other territories annexed after Peter I.

Of course, different clans that bore the same surname are listed separately (in any case, until their connection is clearly established), i.e. we see several Bartenev families, several Golovin families, several Levashov families, several Neklyudov families, etc. Also, titled and untitled branches of the clan (or the same clan changing its title - for example, a count clan becoming a princely clan) stand separately, even if there is no talk of a real decline of the clan. Two different branches of the clan are also placed separately if they used different coats of arms.

Naturally, only titles officially recognized by the supreme power of Russia before 1917 are included. Thus, the grants of titles made by pretenders to the throne and self-proclaimed “emperors” after 1917 NOT INCLUDED, since they are private acts of individuals other than the reigning monarchs (who alone can confer any titles of nobility).

Note

1. About the date of origin(fourth column of the table): we are talking, depending on the cases, about the date of the grant of the patrimony, or the date of the first mention of the surname anywhere, or the date of the grant of the title (in the case of titled clans), or the date of official recognition in Russia of a foreign title kind.

2. Surnames in Russia, in their modern sense, began to appear only in the 16th century. For example, Ivan the Terrible (from the Moscow branch of the Rurikovichs) simply did not have a surname. Accordingly, in the “surname” column (the second column of the table) sometimes there is not the surname itself, but the name by which this or that family was known as the ruling one in some fief (for example, the princes of Rostov, the princes of Chernigov and other Rurikovichs ).

3. Brackets are used when there were several spelling options (for example, Counts of Rzhevussky or Rzhevussky), the same applies to the noble predicates “von” (Germany) or “de”: many genera of German or French origin were written this way, then this, or gradually abandoned the use of the predicate (in such cases it is in parentheses), or, on the contrary, they constantly used it (in which case it appears without a parenthesis). In at least two cases (Counts Devier and Fonvizin), the original predicate was included in the actual Russian surname.

4. A question mark is used when some information seems dubious or unfounded to a number of researchers.

NB! If you see your name on this list, this does not mean at all that you belong to this noble family. For a number of reasons, from the fact that many serfs were recorded at emancipation under the surname of their former owners to the fact that a noble family (received nobility for length of service or for some merit) could bear the same surname and were completely unrelated with her are simple namesakes. The same is with titles - individual branches of a particular family sometimes received a title from the monarch and began a new, titled branch, while the remaining branches remained “just” nobles. Thus, there were, for example, the Putyatin princes, the Putyatin counts, the Putyatin nobles (and the Putyatins who did not have nobility at all), and there are a lot of such examples. Consequently, without careful and serious genealogical searches based on documents, you do not have to “automatically” attribute yourself to one or another famous noble family, even if your last name is Golitsyn or Obolensky.

Against, if you did NOT see your name on this list, this does not mean at all that you do not belong to any noble family - as stated above, the overwhelming majority (more than 4/5) of untitled Russian noble families arose after 1685 and therefore are not included in this list.

Please report any inaccuracies, errors or omissions to [email protected]!

Compiled by: Leo Golovin.

Abbreviations

B: boyar family, i.e. one in which there was at least one boyar

BC: the genus is included in the Velvet Book (1687)

G: the clan has a coat of arms, but it is not included in the published parts of the Armorial Book

Ged: Gediminovichi

DD: a descendant of the ancient nobility (before 1685), but was not included in the Velvet Book

R: Rurikovich

U: extinct clan (for simplicity, this letter also stands for a clan that, for example, ceased to be a count and became a princely one, or even in the case of adding a new part to the surname, for example, the princes of the Beloselskys became under Paul I the princes of the Beloselsky-Belozerskys, so that preserve the extinct Belozersky family)

All titled genera belong to one or more of the following 22 categories :

Princes: UK: former appanage princes (the so-called “natural princes”, who received the title as real rulers, and not as a result of the award of an honorary princely title by the king or emperor), PC: granted princes, IR: foreign princes recognized in Russia, or Russians who received a princely title from foreign states, or natural princes of other countries who were allowed to use their title in Russia, RK: Russian-princely families, KRI: princes of the Roman Empire (Holy Roman Empire of the German nation), recognized in Russia, KP: Polish princely families, CT: “Tatar princes”, i.e. descended from the Tatar Murzas, GK: Georgian (Caucasian) princely families, ranked among the Russian nobility after the entry of Georgia, Imereti, Guria, Kartalinia, Kakheti, Mingrelia, Abkhazia into the Russian Empire, recognized by decree of December 6, 1850 (in contrast to the few Russian-princely families of Georgian origin) .

Graphs: PG: granted counts, RG: Russian-count families, ISIS: foreign counts recognized in Russia, or Russians who received count's title from foreign countries GRI: counts of the Roman Empire (Holy Roman Empire of the German nation), recognized in Russia, GP: Polish count surnames, GF: Finnish count surnames.

Barons: PB: granted barons, RB: Russian-baronial families, IS: foreign barons recognized in Russia, or Russians who received a baronial title from foreign states, BB: Baltic baronial families included in the matricules of the nobility before the Baltic region was annexed to Russia, BRI: barons of the Roman Empire (Holy Roman Empire of the German nation), recognized in Russia, BP: Polish baronial surnames, BF: Finnish baronial surnames.

IT : dukes, marquises, baronets, etc., that is, families granted titles that do not exist in Russia and/or officially received permission to use foreign titles that do not exist in Russian laws (which recognized only three titles - princes, counts and barons) .

THERE WILL BE ABOUT 5,000 BIRTH ON THE LIST, BUT SO far ONLY ABOUT 3,700 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED, AND THE LIST IS THUS NOT COMPLETELY COMPLETE!

), supplemented according to the List of princely families on the website of the Heraldry of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, which require additional verification.

Princes Bagration-Mukhrani-Gruzinsky (with the title Royal Highness), princes Brasov, prince Drutskoy-Sokolinsky-Dobrovolsky, princes Pagava (the second branch of the Megrelian family, which received recognition in princely dignity), princes Ilyinsky, prince Krasinsky, prince Lopukhin, his serene Nanny Romanovskaya (Golitsyna), Your Serene Highness Princess Romanovskaya (de Goshtonyi), Your Serene Serene Princess Romanovskaya-Knust, Your Serene Serene Princess Romanovskaya-Kurakina, Your Serene Serene Princess Romanovskaya (McDougall), Your Serene Serene Princess Romanovskaya-Pavlovskaya, Your Serene Serene Princess Romanovskaya-Strelninskaya, Your Serene Serenity Princes Romanovsky-Brasovs , His Serene Highness Princes Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, His Highness Prince Romanovsky-Iskander, His Serene Highness Prince Romanovsky-Krasinsky, His Serene Highness Prince Romanovsky-Kutuzov, Princess Strelninskaya, Prince Tumanov-Levashev (2 clans), Prince Chkotua (from the Chkhoniya (Chkoniya) clan).

Prince Joseph Karlovich Wrede (b. 1800), second son of K.-F. von Wrede assumed Russian citizenship ( Dolgorukov P.V. Russian genealogy book. - St. Petersburg. : Type-I of E. Weimar, 1856. - T. 3. - P. 16.).

Until 1917, two clans remained vassals of Russia (with the retention of sovereign rights), bearing the titles of emirs (Persian امیر‎) and khans, approximately corresponding to the title prince:

• Mangyt dynasty, rulers of the Bukhara Emirate in 1756-1920, who bore the title of emirs (amir ul-muminin) from 1785; vassals of Russia since 1868.
• Kungrat Dynasty, rulers of the Khiva Khanate in 1804-1920, who bore the title of Khans of Khorezm; vassals of Russia since 1873.

The rulers of the Nakhichevan Khanate, who lost their sovereign rights in 1828, were known in Russia under the title of Khans of Nakhichevan (Azerbaijani: Xan Naxçıvanski) and descended from Ehsan Khan Kangarli (1789-1846) (Azerb. Ehsan xan Kəlbəli Xan oğlu Naxçıvanski (Kəngərli), however, this title was not officially assigned to them.

The basis for dividing the list of Georgian princes was a similar division given in the list of Georgian princely and noble families attached to the Treaty of Georgievsk in 1783, in which the Kartli and Kakheti princes are indicated separately (see List of titled families and persons of the Russian Empire), as well as in the official publication of 1889 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire “List of princely and count families for which titles were recognized or approved, granted to them by foreign sovereigns or belonging to them by origin from ancient titled or sovereign families, as well as those who were allowed to join their surnames, titles and surnames of their relatives”, where the Gurian and Imeretian clans, confirmed in princely dignity on December 6, 1850, are especially highlighted (pp. 26-33). It should be taken into account that from the point of view of Russian legislation, different branches of even the same clan, but recognized in the Russian Empire in the princely dignity of different times, were considered formally different genera, which is recorded, for example, in the 1892 List. It should also be taken into account that in Russian official documents the surnames of many Georgian families were often given in Russified form, so the list also contains Georgian versions of surnames.

According to S.V. Dumina (with reference to K.L. Tumanov) the Abkhaz princely (Atuad) families of Inal-Ipa (Inalypa, Inalishvili), Marshania (Marshan, Amarshan), Chkhotua (Chkotua) and Emukhvari (Emkhaa, Emkhua) were formally confirmed in princely dignity Russian Empire in 1902, 1903, 1901 and 1910. accordingly, while two more Abkhaz princely families (Dzyapsh-Ipa (Zepishvili) and Chaabalyrkhva) did not receive such recognition (Noble families of the Russian Empire. - Vol. 4) and, accordingly, are not included in the list.

The basis for identifying these genera was the compilation of 1866-1867. by a special commission, a list of the princely families of Megrelia, officially published in 1890, and including the following Megrelian princely families: Anchabadze, Apakidze, Asatiani, Akhvlediani, Gardaphadze, Gelovani, Dadeshkiliani, Dadiani, Dgebuadze, Jaiani, Kochakidze, Mikadze, Mkheidze, Pagava, Chikovani , Chichua and Shelia (Noble families of the Russian Empire. - T. 4). Of these clans, Gelovani and Dadeshkiliani are more accurately classified as Svan.

Begildeevs

After the suppression of this family, his surname (without the princely title) was transferred on August 4, 1807 to one of the branches of the family of counts Vorontsov, who adopted the title of counts

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A study of the history of the origin of the Grafskaya surname reveals forgotten pages the life and culture of our ancestors and can tell a lot of interesting things about the distant past.

The surname Grafskaya belongs to ancient type Slavic family names derived from personal nicknames.

The tradition of giving a person an individual nickname in addition to the name received at baptism has existed since ancient times in Rus' and persisted until the 17th century. This is explained by the fact that out of the thousands of baptismal names recorded in the calendar and month books, a little more than two hundred church names were used in practice. And the supply of nicknames that made it easy to distinguish a person from other bearers of the same name was inexhaustible.

Many Slavic surnames were formed from nicknames derived from common nouns that denoted certain places. Subsequently, these nicknames were documented and became real family name, the surname of the descendants. In Russian, such surnames usually had the ending -sky, for example, Lugovsky, Polevsky, Rudnitsky. Surnames with this suffix usually appeared in areas where residents moved different areas. So they could call a person who came from Grafsky settlement Grafovo, Grafovka or with a similar name. For example, the villages of Grafovo used to exist in the Izhevsk, Kharkov and Smolensk provinces.

The nickname Grafsky could also have an urban origin, based on the name of the street where he lived. For example, in Moscow there is Grafsky Lane, which is named after title of nobility Count Sheremetev, on whose land it was laid.

In addition, many peasants received their surnames based on the title or rank of their owner, for example, Boyarsky, Knyazhinsky. One of such names formed with the help of the suffix -sky is the name Grafsky.

It is also quite likely that the nickname Count appeared in the son of a man who, for some reason, had the personal nickname Count, or in an illegitimate son of a serf-owner - a peasant son, a count.

The artificial origin of the Grafskaya surname is also possible. IN late XVII century, the practice developed in the church environment to give clergy new, usually more euphonious, surnames. Many artificial seminary surnames were formed according to the model with the ending -sky, which was considered “noble” - such surnames in their form corresponded to the surnames of Russian aristocrats. Explaining the origin of the surnames they received, the seminarians joked: “By churches, by flowers, by stones, by cattle, and as His Eminence will delight.” Peasant children without surnames were often given seminary surname by the name by which they were called, that is, “from the count’s peasants” - Grafsky.

It is obvious that the Grafskaya surname has an interesting centuries-old history and should be classified as one of the oldest family names, testifying to the diversity of ways in which Russian surnames appeared.

Sources: Superanskaya A.V., Suslova A.V. Modern Russian surnames. 1981. Unbegaun B.-O. Russian surnames. M., 1995. Nikonov V.A. Geography of surnames. M., 1988. Dal V.I. Dictionary living Great Russian language. M., 1998 Geography of Russia: Encyclopedic Dictionary. M., 1998.